Polydactyly means extra fingers or toes.
Polydactylism
Horse 'leg finger' (or toes) are called 'hooves'. One is a 'hoof'. All of them are 'hooves'.
Extra digits, fingers or toes
The sixth digit is technically called hexadactyly, which literally means six digits.
That person is wrong. The Lundehund has 6 toes They use the extra toes to help them climb the cliffs of their country to hunt puffin birds. That's all I know of though..No dog breed has extra toes. Keep dreaming lolThat one person doesn't know what he is talking about. I have a dog with 6 toes on each hind leg and it is not a Norwegian lundehund
Six Fingers and ToesYes there are pictures of people who have a 6th finger. My father and his brothers all had a 6th finger. They have all passed now but it is a family trait. I have photos with my father's hand showing his 6th finger. Two of my cousins have 6 fingers, and one of my cousins was born with extra fingers and toes. He had a total of 24 fingers and toes ++++++different person++++there are people with even seven on both hands and toes, such are show in the Guiness World Records.
Thumbs, fingers, toes, halluces - they are all digits
No, some people have extra toes, some have 11 or 12. maybe more
the bones in the fingers are called metacarpals en the smaller finger bones are called phalanges.
Not necessarily. Cats who have extra toes are called "polydactyl cats." This is caused by a genetic mutation. Their paws may look like they have thumbs or mittens, and it is not dangerous to a cat's health. Sometimes, these cats are actually bred for the extra toes. On the other hand, there are cases in which it can be a potentially serious problem. This is a condition called radial hypoplasia, in which the extra toes are not separate from the normal toes but are adjacent to them. This makes the cat's foot appear flat instead of like a mitten.
The condition is called polydactyly. It is a congenital anomaly where a person is born with more than the usual number of fingers or toes on one or both hands or feet.
A cat that has extra toes is a polydactyl.
No. But the second wife of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, was rumoured to have an extra finger on one hand. This was an accusation magnified by her enemies, as it would seem Anne had some form of deformity on one finger, rather than an extra digit.